Tuesday, September 18, 2012

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century Blog Tour- Playlist and a Giveaway!

Hey y’all! Today I have a playlist for you from the
awesomesauce Rachel Harris for the My
Super Sweet Sixteenth Century Blog Tour! And yes I can say that I’ve met
her. And she is definitely awesomesauce ;)

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On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family’s trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.
Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore.
Can she find her way back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?

Now on to Rachel’s playlist!

I make soundtracks before I start writing
anything, and the selections end up being very different from book to book because
I choose songs based on each particular main character’s emotional arc.

Songs are picked for their titles, the chorus,
or sometimes even just a line that stands out and perfectly captures the story
I’m trying to tell or a feeling I want to get across.

The soundtrack for My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century has 21 songs, so I’ll spare you
the full list. The songs below highlight Cat’s main arc (and leaves out the big
spoilers, he he).

Also, I guess it’s good to know for those who
haven’t read the book that Cat’s journey is about going from being closed off
and not really trusting anyone to get close to her to the end where she learns
to open up to emotions experiences, and people:

·Poker Face by Lady Gaga – This is
the very first song on the soundtrack and is even Cat’s ringtone in the
beginning of the book.

·Because of You by Kelly Clarkson –
this was chosen because it perfectly shows Cat’s relationship with her
birthmother, and how that formed the way she relates to other people

·On My Own (Les Miserables) – This
was really chosen because it’s the song Cat sings—or I should say attempts to sing—when she’s asked to
perform at a dinner party her first full day in the past, but it also has a
hidden significance, too.

·Today Was a Fairytale by Taylor
Swift – There’s a scene in the countryside that pretty much marks a turning
point for Cat in the story, and this song captures the feeling and even some of
the details of that scene so perfectly.

I couldn’t find the official one,
but this is a homemade one staring little kids that is SO FREAKING ADORABLE!!

Stay by Wideawake – I love this song and I admit I kinda use it several
soundtracks. It’s about growth, wanting to be “free” and change and let people
know the real you. This video is from a concert, so the music is kinda off, but
the lyrics are just AMAZING, so I’ll give two links, one for the video, and the
other for the powerful lyrics. Lyrics

·Steel Bars by Jill Phillips –
Another favorite to show that big turning point of growth. I couldn’t find an
official video, but this video has the lyrics written at the bottom as well as
the song in the background, and the pictures are kinda cute

(I should note that apparently,
this is a Christian song—I didn’t even know that until I went to find the video
for this post—so some of the images in the video have a religious undertone,
but I think the lyrics are universal.)

·Love Story by Taylor Swift – One of the
last songs on the soundtrack (can’t give away all the spoilers!) but this
pretty much completes the big arc for Cat….plus the video itself gave me tons
of inspiration for the storyline as well (*grin*)

As a teen, Rachel Harris threw raging parties
that shook her parents’ walls and created embarrassing fodder for future
YA novels. As an adult, she reads and writes obsessively, rehashes said
embarrassing fodder, and dreams up characters who become her own grown up
version of imaginary friends.

When she’s not typing furiously or flipping
pages in an enthralling romance, you can find her homeschooling her two
beautiful princesses, hanging out with her amazing husband, or taking a
hot bubble bath…next to a pile of chocolate. MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEENTH CENTURY is
her debut novel.

She did have her own fantabulous
Sweet Sixteen in high school. Sadly, it wasn’t televised.

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